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fredag, mars 02, 2012

Artists must fight their tormentors

I have published some books. As an author I´ve tried to make statements about the defective copyright laws.
Now it will be an art exhibition in my name. I therefore humbly ask for help from pirates and anyone who understands that the laws are wrong, both off and online.
I would like to use this art exhibition; the prints, invitations, media relations, etc., that will surround the event to provide a moderate manifestation.

I hope to bring more artists to the awareness that they are just as deceived as those who enjoy their work. We have to becomea movement thatfights againstourtormentors, artists who fully understand that the copyright industry is obsolete. In the link list below are examples of other artists who are in the fight.

I gratefully accept suggestions and proposals on how this manifesto / statement can be improved; shorter and more intellectual hard hitting.

Below my first outline of a program for the exhibition.

Wish u the best

/Anders

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Concrete illusions

80x60cm Panel/hardboard,

Polymerized concrete, acrylic. Anders Widén IRL & Cyberspace 2012

a stolen Art exhibition

Anders Widén

2012

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My Origin

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates or fuels your imagination. Devour films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, light and shadows. Select things that speak to your soul. If you do this, your theft will be creative. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery. Always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.’”

Slaughter remix of Jim Jarmusch by me.

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I´m a mesh from the past to now. Everyone is as we are born into a culture. One has to take advantage of it, manage to squeeze startling stuff out of the dull life itself. Otherwise there is nothing but an inflated ego.

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The Pirate Party points that we are in the remix era. I argue that we always done remixes, and has been involved in thefts, though artists call it inspiration.

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What’s so Bad About Stealing?*

# Rembrandt, a master of layers that glows. I rip him off big way. # Michelangelo´s alfresco on dry plaster of the Sistine Chapel, I pinch but go for concrete.# In my view comic books came before Rubens, so I knew where he was stealing how to use light to create dynamic and sharp contrasts. His dynamism worth warping? Hell yes!# There is an unguarded vault to rob: Expressionism. Munch, van Gogh, Matisse, Cezanne, Kandinsky and so forth. Add cross-fertilizing between Picasso's Cubism, brilliant colors of medieval church windows and the smells that hit you when you get off an airplane in central Asia: Bang.

My theft runs into bunches of transparent glaze so that the surface transforms into a multi-layer information carrier. On concrete. I´m an artist. Not a word above is unique and original.

Want to mess with isolated ideas? Check Newton and Einstein, since thesegeniuseswere without historyand was not standing on theshouldersof scientists andgenerations ofknowledge before them.

Anders & the swarm, Cyberspace 2012

__________________________________________________________*Jonathan Barnett Professor USC Gould School of Law Los Angeles, CA 90089 United States

___________________________________________________Links on the subject:

BooksHere Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.

Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is “intellectual property,” Lewis Hyde turns to America’s founding fathers—men like John Adams, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson—in search of other ways to value the fruits of human wit and imagination. What he discovers is a rich tradition in which knowledge was assumed to be a commonwealth, not a private preserve.

I didn't know that there was a debate in your country about it.I don't understand.Do people think that an artists should start from scratch?Artists are influenced not only by those who they admire but also by the art that is being done at the period they work.I don't know where is the problem.

No, between artists and art lovers, there is no debate.The copyright industry, which then sells artists' work claims that it is a criminal offense to copy the original, even if you change, do a remix, or be inspired.

We have had a quote right for a long time, now th copyright industry tries to legislate against it.

An example. A photographer took a picture of a musician. The picture was sold to many magazines. The photographer earned in this way a lot of money.An artist painted a similar picture, it could be that he used the photographer's image as inspiration, it is also possible that he had seen the same thing at the concert.However, he was punished for having made copyright infringement.The photographer did not pursue this case, it was they who bought the rights to publish his picture who ran it to court.

So. I'm trying to create an artistic manifesto that fight this idiocy.

Therefore I run it as far as to say that all artists of all time has stolen (instead of talking about inspiration). I want to spark debate. I hope to create a manifesto that I can stand behind with full honesty. Although I use dramatically proportioned words.